G3971

πατρῷος

patrōosG:A

ancestral

πατρῷος, -α, -ον (πατήρ), [in LXX: Pro.27:10 (אָב), Est.7:5, 2 -4Ma.12:1-19 * ;] of one's fathers, received from one's fathers: Act.22:3 24:14 28:17.† (AS)

The KJV translates G3971 in the following manner:

fathers (6x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

πατρῷος — patrōios

πατροως (poetic and Ionic πατρωιος), πατρωα, πατροων, (πατήρ), from Homer down, "descending from father to son or from ancestors to their posterity as it were by right of inheritance; received from the fathers": νόμος, Act 22:3 (2Ma 6:1; Aelian v. h. 6, 10); Θεός, Act 24:14 (4Ma 12:19; and often in Greek writings θεοί πατροωι, Ζεύς πατροως etc.); τοῖς ἔθεσι τοῖς πατροωις, Act 28:17 (Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho,

c. 63; πατροως ἔθος, Aelian v. h. 7, 19 variant). [SYNONYMS: πατροως, πατρικός: on the distinction of the grammarians (see Photius, Suidas, Ammonius, etc. under the words) according to which πατροως is used of property descending from father to son, πατρικός of persons in friendship or feud, etc., see Ellendt, Lex. Sophocles ii., p. 530f; Liddell and Scott, under the word πατροως; Schmidt, chapter 154.]

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